St. George's Church is a parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 in Barton in Fabis

Barton in Fabis

Barton in Fabis is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire. It has a population of about 250. The village is just south of Nottingham, being on the other side of the River Trent from Attenborough....

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

.

History

The church is medieval. St. George's Church was restored

Victorian restoration

Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...

 in 1855 by Thomas Chambers Hine

Thomas Chambers Hine

Thomas Chambers Hine 1814 - 1899 was an architect based in Nottingham.He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle class family, the eldest son of a hosiery manufacturer. He was articled to the London architect Matthew Habershorn. In 1837 he arrived in Nottingham and formed a partnership...

 and is a Grade I listed building.

The church is famous for the alabaster tomb in the chancel dating from 1616 with reclining effigies of William and Tabitha Sacheverell.

Incumbents

• 1266 Bartholomew
• 1270 Henry Sampson
• ???? Henry de Barton
• 1288 Adam de Hamundesham
• 1326 John de Blebury
• 1328 John de Mekesburgh
• 1343 Thomas de Birton de Stapilford
• 1356 Walter de Birton
• 1357 William de Conyngton
• 1398 Richard Arnall
• 1405 John Normanby
• 1406 William Senster
• 1408 Ric [Henricus] Killom
• 1415 John Hill de Farlesthorp
• 1442 William Findern
• 1458 Oliver Blakwell
• 1495 Martin Colyns
• 1508 John Thorman
• 1550 James Wheatley
• 1577 Archibald Lucas Gilpin

• 1587 John Cooke
• 1599 Thomas Bowes
• 1612 Thomas Ireland
• 1615 Francis Higginson
• 1616 Ralph Hansbie
• 1635-37 John Neyle
• 1641 Barnaby Barlowe
• 1650 Jonathan Goodwin
• 1671 Robert Field
• 1676 Jer Coadworth
• 1686 Samuel Crowborough
• 1691 William Pearson
• 1692 Andrew Lorley
• 1720 Joseph Milner
• 1751 John Wickliffe
• 1769 Henry Forster Mills
• 1792 Robert Markham
• 1806 John Storer
• 1827 Hon J S Venables Vernon
• 1828 John Fyre

• 1829 Fitzgerald Wintour
• 1865 Lloyd Bruce
• 1872 James Sweet
• 1878 Christopher Albert Hodgson
• 1916 William Gallagher
• 1920 Henry Meaden
• 1924 Joseph Poole
• 1929 Ernest Bardsley
• 1940 F. Turney
• 1941 Frederick Byron, 10th Baron Byron
  Frederick Byron, 10th Baron Byron
  The Reverend Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron was an Anglican clergyman, and the tenth Baron Byron, as grandson of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.-Life:Byron was the son of the Hon....
  
  
• 1942 Reginald Bidwell
• 1947 Harold Pritchard
• 1960 Arnold Hill
• 1964 Stephen Forbes-Adam
• 1970 Robin Protheroe
• 1973 Andrew Woodsford
• 1982 Alistair Sutherland
• 1997 Richard Spray
• 2001 Stephen Osman

Organ

The two manual pipe organ dates from 1893 and is by the builder Alexander Young. It was installed in 1965. It came from Wincham

Wincham

right|thumb|200px|Map of civil parish of Wincham in the former borough of Vale RoyalWincham is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated about three miles north of Northwich in the Cheshire Plain...

Methodist Church. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

Source

• Southwell & Nottingham church history project